(Closed) I bought my DRESS!!

I’m so excited! Me and my mother went to a bridal shop we’ve been dying to go to since a bridal show a few months back on Saturday. We walked in and initially knew it was going to be a bad day. The staff started helping another girl that came after me, they gave her TWO dresses that I had already moved aside for me to try on, and then just stuffed me in a dressing room and walked out, literally leaving me with no instructions on “dress yourself, I’ll be back” or anything. She literally just walked out.

So, my mom had to come in and help me get into the dresses (which was a bummer because she likes to get the sudden full affect of me walking out of the dressing room already dressed). I tried on this first dress, and I fell in LOVE (it was one of the dresses i had to steal from the other girl they were fawning all over). But I still wasn’t getting THAT feeling, so I continued the paroozing of the dresses. I probably tried on about 15 dresses all together. So, I tried on a slinkier dress (that I wouldn’t dare wear for a church ceremony), that fit me nicely in the hips, but not so much in the straps and boobage area. BUT it was only $50, and I LOVED it. So, we put it to the side and made sure Miss Fancy Pants next door never saw it. So, my mom wanted me to try on the first dress again, last. So I could compare it to all of those dresses I had tried on. I only had one more dress left, and I wasn’t certain about it, I liked it but it had pick-ups, and it just was nothing that I ever thought I would like. So, I tried it on anyway. Talk about, THE moment. I just knew. I loved it loved it loved it. It fit perfectly, it just needed to have a little off at the bottom and I could be getting married tomorrow.

But let me know what you think!

And btw, I did end up buying the slinkier dress, so I’m now a two dress bride!

@socalmeli: Well, it was more the older women. I think because I look so young, they didn’t really expect much. But I ended up buying two dresses, a veil, and my mother went ahead and bought her dress. And we left a complaint with the owner who is the most amazing woman about the woman that basically shoved us off. She said that it’s because they’re all so much older than us, they don’t feel they have to be as polite. But she did take 10% off because of it. But, miss fancy pants didn’t buy anything.

@amyisnice: I do not! We were so into trying on all the dresses, and then with the slinkier one, we were really concerned that it couldn’t be altered to fit me properly, that I was just ready to get it off so the seamstress could look at it.

@amyisnice: And yes I am wearing the other one at the reception. I’m probably going to cut the cake and do traditional stuff in my wedding gown, and then change a few hours later into the slinkier one/reception gown.

@pengoala: Thank you! And I know, usually me and my mom are the people to just walk out and leave when treated badly, but I loved the selection and plus, I found everything I wanted, amazingly under budget.

My wedding gown was $350, Reception gown was $50, and my veil was $109. We had put $1000 aside for the gown alone!